Word: huts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shade, she said. But she was sharing much more. "I lost my husband and my three children," she said, pointing a crooked finger to a rubble heap near by. "I lived. These [pointing to her companions], lost theirs also. Now we three old ladies live in a little hut near the city hall. We are clearing away the rubble here and putting the gravestones back in place, trying to make this little garden neat. There is so little else that we can do. For us there is no hope. But there is for the young people, and we live...
...tourist attraction." When Mormons observe their Utah Centennial next week with parades, dances, music, speeches and religious services, thousands of non-Mormons will crowd the bunting-hung streets. They will stare at the multi-towered Mormon Temple, marvel at the acoustical wonders of that famed and enormous Quonset hut, the Mormon Tabernacle, where the Mormon choir thunders out hymns. But what will most awe them will be the spectacular manifestations of Mormon diligence and industry...
...favored him with other miracles (in 1468 his prayers saved the town of Sarnen from a conflagration), with the gift of prophecy and with visions. High dignitaries of church & state sought him out in his ravine, where a cell and chapel were finally built to replace his hut of branches and leaves. In 1480 he is credited with saving Switzerland from civil war and possible partition...
...selected clientele that the latter has fallen off considerably since the University's Golden Day. Education-admirer Felix, of course, does not admit to difference between the Harvard of today's Postwar and the Harvard of the Roaring Twenties. He has not looked for the trappings of opulence hut rather for the constant Knowledge. There is really nothing incongruous about this little man's carrying on a twenty-minute chat with Dean Pound after...
From then on, Niemeyer was established in the hearts of his countrymen. At Pampulha, he designed a group of curving, glass-walled structures (yacht club, casino, restaurant). There he also built a Nissen-hut type of church so strange in design that the Roman Catholic arch bishop refused to consecrate it (TIME...